Building blocks built at MIT have the ability to propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form different shapes.

MIT researchers developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together like the bricks of LEGOs, according to the the school.

MIT researchers first showed off its self-assembling “M-Block” robot cubes in 2013 — and this week, they shared a video of what they’re calling M-Blocks 2.0. which can climb on and around ...

Kinetic Blocks, an invention from MIT's Tangible Media Group, is a grid of pixels that can manipulate objects to create or disassemble structures. Kinetic Blocks can even watch a human build ...

Extreme MIT's M-Block Robots Roll, Jump, and Flip to Form Structures We've seen engineers design some truly amazing robots that can walk, run, and even jump, but not all robots need to be so ...

Robotics MIT’s M-Blocks: A New Class Of Robot Cubes That Self Assemble What if robots could reassemble themselves at will? The liquid metal cyborg in Terminator was terrifyingly useful. It could look ...

This week the former MIT student known as John Romanishin revealed a plan - and working demo units - of a modular self-assembling robot pods.… ...